Episode 62-Phase (2)
“Quite a long time ago, as a result of the collapse of the Demon World, the demonic energy that flowed in transformed many living things into mutants. “If we don’t keep catching those monsters, we who live in remote areas cannot survive.”
“…You mean that giant earth dragon just now?”
“okay. “It’s a monster that mutated from an ordinary lizard.”
She introduced her name as Tina and did not pause as she naturally guided them.
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Riena memorized the story, which was difficult to understand. Once you memorize it, it doesn’t take long to understand it.
‘The mutants, or creatures, they are talking about are a different kind of monster than a bug. But maybe it will help us deal with the bugs.’
Riena recognized that bugs and mutants were different types of monsters. However, when Tina explained about the hunter who specializes in catching such mutants, he instinctively decided that he might be able to learn a skill to use against the giant monster bug, just as he had learned the skill himself.
I learned how to make good use of the gap between the game world and reality.
“Do you want to become hunters too?”
“Yes? I said nothing…ah.”
Liena, who flinched when Tina suddenly turned around, was convinced when she saw the raccoon walking next to her. Tina is talking to him.
Even when he was working as a knight, he communicated with others like this. Riena was actually sad that she couldn’t hear his voice, but for now she had to be satisfied with just being together.
“Anyone can be a hunter. Because there is no such thing as a limit. “If you don’t have the skills to begin with, you’ll get caught and eaten.”
“How strong is the earth dragon from just now?”
“If I’m an A-level person, I can catch it.”
Riena glanced at the back where the group was rushing in and carrying out the dismantling work. She laughed with a smug look on her face at what Riena said.
Riena had no idea, but if it was Class A, it was a fairly high grade. Tina, who appears as a main NPC in the actual game, was a strong hunter.
‘Was it similar to that black spider?’
Riena measured the remaining feeling in her writhing hands and compared the blue drake she had met just before with the spider-shaped bug she had hunted at the bug nest earlier.
In Riena’s judgment, it felt similar to that giant spider holding a poisonous weapon.
“What you see in front of you is our city.”
And that moment. They left the forest and saw a city built primarily by hunters. Although it was the same place as the game, Riena’s eyes widened when she saw a city that was different from the medieval fantasy of Dark Blood.
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‘It was originally a game with a lot of freedom. ‘Are we going to continue like this?’
Tina guided us into the city. It is a city that every player must come to for the first time. You can move on to another place right away, but the common strategy is to move on here with basic skills and equipment.
As a city built by people who freely use the by-products of giant monsters, to me it was just a street in an ordinary fantasy game, but Riena seemed to be busy looking around to see if the city was as amazing as when she first went to the Dark Blood world.
“There you are. “A place where you can receive quests.”
‘Hunter’s Association.’
The place where Tina guided us was a large building in the center of the city. Most of the gameplay of this game revolved around hunting down enemies and selling the loot or using it for crafting to equip equipment.
That association is the one that gives you the right to hunt that enemy or gives you compensation. It’s a place you have no choice but to keep coming back to when playing games.
“You don’t need any qualifications to become a hunter. All you have to do is prove it. “If you prove it, I’ll give you a reward and a grade, so just go catch the monsters and prove it.”
The man who introduced himself as Brandt, an employee of the association, gave us a quest to become hunters, similar to the strategy I reviewed in advance. It may not be visible to Riena, but I can already see the quest he gave me.
If you made it this far and went out to do the quest, it probably wouldn’t be much different from the existing game.
“Umm, that armor you’re wearing. It’s clearly made of metal. “I feel a special power.”
Brandt spoke with sparkling eyes. This was what he said when he saw Riena. You can see at a glance the power of armor made in other genres of games.
“The corpses of mutants whose bodies are full of magical energy make excellent materials. Buying it is also our job. “Do you have any intention of selling that armor you’re wearing?”
“–. —.”
He bluntly asked me if I had any intention of selling the armor. I couldn’t hear what Riena, who seemed embarrassed, was saying, but it seemed like she was rejecting it when I saw her waving her hands.
“—?”
Instead, he took something else out of his pocket. The item that I wondered if I was carrying something like that was none other than one of the sharp fangs of a spider-like bug I had hunted in a bug nest.
“Ohh.”
Riena seems to have brought it up because she thought the bug was similar to the creatures that appear in this game, but Brandt showed interest in it as well. He came closer, grabbed it, and looked around.
‘The original goal was to learn how to fight giant monsters, learn crafting techniques, and obtain a way to dispose of the by-products of the bugs killed.’
After Riena showed the by-product of the bug to Brandt, an association official, Brandt found it interesting and asked to sell it.
Immediately after that, an option occurred to me, so after thinking about it for a while, I decided to sell them.
According to Brandt, the by-products of bugs are items that are difficult to process at a normal level. Actually, if you think about the identity of the crazy monsters that even penetrate the monitor, they will be different from the by-products of ordinary monsters.
It was an unexpected offer, but even if the residents learned the crafting technology, they would need time to increase their proficiency in the crafting technology, so there was no reason to turn it down if they could make a profit by selling bug by-products to the association in the meantime.
‘Those who will learn crafting skills with materials obtained from hunting in this game can sell the by-products of the bug while they increase their proficiency.’
No matter how I think about it, things worked out pretty well. First of all, today, as a taste, I thought I could create another cycle by catching the weakest creatures with Riena to get used to them, and then forming a party with those to be deployed in the follow-up.
“uh.”
[LV 2 bug appears] [LV 5 glitch appears]
However, selling the by-products of bugs is ultimately only possible if you continue to catch bugs. While I was trying to concentrate on the game, I was shocked when I saw the enemies that appeared on the desktop.
“—!”
An emergency order was issued to the village, which had not yet completed housing for the new members. A black crack appeared in the middle of the plains south of the village, and many strange, writhing monsters began to emerge from it.
It was a bit quiet after disposing of the nest, so I wondered when it would come out again. However, even though I had expected it, I became anxious when it came out so suddenly without even a warning symptom.
‘How many people can fight now?’
I quickly opened a table summarizing the residents’ conditions. The residents, led by Varun, were preparing to fight on their own, but those currently deployed in the game would not know the news unless I took them out.
Fortunately, most warriors were in condition to fight. I took out all the warriors, including Larsen and Shura, who were fighting in the dungeon of the underworld, and even sent out Riena, my strongest fighter, just in case.
They were embarrassed, but since many of them had experience fighting bugs, they quickly grabbed their weapons and headed to the fighting position.
‘What on earth is this? It looks like a bee.’
The bugs and glitches that appeared were flying in the sky with wings. A slender body, sharp poisonous sting, and fearsome jaws.
Compared to the residents, the bugs, whose entire bodies were covered in black carapace, looked like bees the size of a minibus, and the glitches at lvl 5 had sharp snouts that looked just like mosquitoes.
“—. –.”
Perhaps because they were flying through the sky, the residents seemed to have decided to fight from behind structures such as houses and castle walls rather than riding horses.
The barriers diligently built by the transporters provided a reliable reporting facility. Residents who could fight climbed up there, took out their bows, and aimed at the flying enemies.
My hands were shaking as there was nothing I could do about it right now. Now, we have no choice but to trust the residents who are glaring at the enemies with unwavering eyes.
“!!!”
The enemies attack quickly, and then crash.
The arrows fired all at once shot across the sky and hit their bodies, but most of the ordinary arrows bounced off their shells, and only a few lucky shots penetrated the gap and knocked them to the ground.
The enemies attacked the wall where the residents were fighting with their bodies, causing them to stumble, fall, and even be impaled.
“It was too fast…!”
I lamented after confirming that there was a person whose status had been changed from status to death. Ordinary residents without armor participated in the fight and were sacrificed.
However, after the assault, in which they attacked with the mass of their flying acceleration, the residents were not easily pushed back.
“–!”
Hot flame bullets flew in succession, crushing one soldier and burning the bug that was trying to pierce it with its sharp snout. It was a magic shot by Larsen.
Rakum, holding a spear, jumped in front of him and pierced the body of the guy next to him, and warriors charged from the other side and took down the guys who were trying to fly back into the sky one by one.
This is the moment when the ability to awaken the talents of the warriors as much as possible and promote them to the next level truly shines.
Bug, the intractable enemy, was also wounded by Riena’s sword, which struck down a poisonous stinger thicker than any spear, and his huge body fell under the wall.
‘I think I can win.’
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Riena, who jumped after the bug, cut off the bug’s wings as it tried to fly away.
I was surprised by the appearance of flying enemies when I first encountered them, but although they may have suffered damage, the residents were able to block them without breaking through.
If the number had been smaller or if the strength had been weaker, there would have been more damage.
“—, —-.”
Those who had killed all the mosquito-like glitches ran out and attacked the bug that had fallen to the ground.
The bug whose wings had been cut off by Riena resisted by pulling out tentacles from its chest, but the only damage it did was a few warriors getting hit by the tentacles and being blown away.
‘Gotcha.’
While Riena held the poisonous sting with her hand and suppressed it with all her might, Rakum rushed over and stabbed the victim in the neck with a blue shining spear, suffocating it.
Everyone looked embarrassed by the sudden battle, but perhaps because we had been talking about by-products just before, I checked what dead bugs and glitches had left behind.
As expected, the bug left behind a considerable amount of by-products, including stingers and carapace. The glitches that had been leaving nothing behind left some traces, perhaps because they were of a higher level.